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100,000 "peindni'V wlucli I tliiiik may stanJ for pliiii^lo pin? 

 (100,000 sliiiigle pins would allow about three pin? to each shiiiglc), 

 also 1,020 planks, the whole cost £16 3s. 5|d. Then there were 

 three piles of tiniher, which cost 25s. 4d. All these were prepared 

 by the King's order, and therefore they must have been used in the 

 King's service, but where 1 The King's houses at Cranborne were 

 repaired in this year at a cost of 78s. 2d., but green wood would 

 scarcely have been employed for the purpose, nor could so large a 

 fiuantity of wood have been used there. The wood must have 

 been prepared, I think, for the new houses at Gillingham, material 

 for the building was already being collected there ; two heaps of 

 timber were cut there at a cost of 16s., but more of this later. 



Richard, son of Edwin, and Robert Crassus, the King's huntsmen, 

 and their assistants, with the Royal hounds, were supplied with 

 food and cloth, and Roger Rastel and his assistants, who were 

 Jiunting in Selwood Forest, with the Royal hounds, were furnished 

 with necessaries whilst they were engaged there at a cost of 

 5Ss. 5J-d. 



2 JOIIX, A.D. 1201-1202. 



Robert Relet was sheriff of the two counties in this year. 'We 

 have the same payments as in the first part of the preceding Roll, 

 with two or three additions. Amongst the lands granted is a 

 grant " Monach' de Rinnendon' xx. s' i' mol'ndino de Fordinton' 

 q'<l h'nt de dono R','' so that was how the Monks of Cindon 

 became possessed of Fordington Mill ; it was given them by King 

 John. William de Alphay gets 20s. for cloth this year also, as he 

 did last year. 



£150 was spent on the King's houses which were being l)uilt at 

 Gillingham. The viewers were Peter Ham and AVilliani, son nf 

 Baldwyn ; and £20 on the Castle of Dorchester, here Philip 

 Crubbe, Hugh son of Eve, and Richard Loke viewed the work 

 for the King. Crubbe is the name of an old Uorchester family 

 which has died out, but the Lock family are still resident in the 

 town after the lai)se of nearly 700 years, and probably the family 

 Iiave lived in the town throughout those years. One of the viewers 



